Two suspects have been taken into custody in connection with the beating of a man on a metrolink train on March 23rd.

Police say a 15 year old juvenile and a 21 year old man have been arrested and warrants will be applied for at the Circuit Attorney’s Office Tuesday.
[Two arrested in in Metrolink Beating Case, CBS St. Louis, March 30, 2015]

Meanwhile, the victim is one David Autry, who has started a GoFundMe page to buy new glasses, gather charity for other crime victims, and buy new transportation for himself so he never has to take public transportation again.

An overreaction? Perhaps, were it not for this chilling account of his beating.

In an interview with KMOV 4, Autry called the reaction of the other passengers on the train “disgusting” and claimed witnesses were “laughing and smiling about it, [but] no one offered to help, no one attempted to call 911."

“A huge number of people wonder how anyone could enter such a high risk area – such as any public transportation system – without some kind of plan for self-defense, whether it’s a gun, or a knife, or mace.”

Even Williams conceded there was a nationwide increase in “random acts of violence on public transportation.”

Autry encountered similar questions on his GoFundMe page about why he didn’t fight back. He responded, “I have to say I am amazing at how bold people can be behind the curtain of the Internet. I have been called just about everything for not standing up and fighting those guys.”

He explained, “First, I was dazed from the sucker punch in the face. Second, c’mon three against one? I was trying to protect my glasses. I didn’t know they were on the floor all bent up and the lens popped out. Third, if I had stood up and fought, only white guy on that train car, how do I know I wouldn’t be attacked from behind as well? It[']s easy to say what YOU would have done until you find yourself in that situation.”

Just so. Autry will probably be forced to apologize or issue a pro forma denial of racism for uttering the forbidden truth that a lone white person on a bus full of blacks might as well be walking around with a target on his back.

The conservative African-American activist the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson suggests, "These attacks are not going to stop until whites speak up and start defending themselves...American cities have become a hostile environment for whites.”

The reason they will stay that way is the Multicultural Cycle of Destruction, represented here by the Course of Empire.

If whites started "speaking up," they'd be hounded by the media until they were fired by their jobs. And if they started "defending themselves," they'd be charged with Civil Rights violations.

So they do the reasonable thing and move away from diversity to new territory.

Slowly, they start to rebuild what they left behind.

Eventually, they build prosperous communities and a strong civic ethic.